SAXIFRAGACEE, XVIII. Avamia. 
Var. y, corymbosa (Blum. mss.) cymes branched, on long 
peduncles, disposed in somewhat fastigiate corymbs. . S. 
Native of Java. Perhaps a proper species. 
Wood Cianitis. Shrub 2 to 8 feet. 
Cult. A mixture of loam, peat, and sand will suit these 
plants ; and cuttings will root readily in the same kind of soil, 
under a hand-glass. 
XVIII. ADA‘MIA (in honour of John Adam, some time 
Governor-General of India; a promoter of natural history). 
Wall. tent. fl. nep. p. 46. t. 36. D.C. prod. 4. p. 16. 
Lin. syst. Decéndria, Pentagynia. Tube of calyx adnate to 
the ovarium ; limb with 5 short teeth, having the recesses between 
the teeth broad and obtuse. Petals 5, alternating with the teeth 
of the calyx, surrounding the top of the ovarium. Stamens 10. 
Styles 5, ending in rather clavate, somewhat 2-lobed stigmas. 
Berry crowned by the limb of the calyx, somewhat 5-celled, 
many seeded. Embryo terete, straight, in a fleshy albumen, 
with the radicle turned towards the hilum.—A smooth branched 
shrub. Leaves opposite, exstipulate, petiolate, oblong-lanceo- 
late, serrated. Panicle corymbose, terminal, many flowered. 
Flowers bluish. Berries blue. Perhaps not distinct from 
Cianitis. 
1 A. cyanm‘a (Wall. 1. c.) h%.G. Native of Nipaul, in 
rocky places, on mountains near the Great Valley, where it is 
called Bansook by the natives. Hook. bot. mag. t. 3046. Wall. 
pl. rar. asiat. 3. t. 213. 
Blue-berried Adamia. Fl. June, July. Clt. 1829. Shrub 
4 to 6 feet. 
Cult. See Cianitis above for culture and propagation. 
XIX. BROUSSAI'SIA (in honour of the celebrated M. 
Broussais, M.D. author of physiological medicine). Gaud. in 
Freye. voy. t. 69. D. C; prod. 4. p. 17. 
Lin. syst. Decéndria, Monoginia. Calyx 5-parted, hemis- 
pherical, distinct from the ovarium : lobes ovate-deltoid, blunt- 
ish, equal. Petals oblong, acuminated, with a reflexed point 
{nearly as in umbelliferous plants) twice the length of the calyx, 
valvate in estivation. Stamens 10, hypogynous, surrounding 
the base of the ovarium ; filaments subulate, distinct ; anthers 
ovate. Ovarium roundish, crowned by the short style and trun- 
cate stigma, 5-celled; cells many seeded.—A shrub, with op- 
posite oval petiolate sharply serrated leaves, and corymbs of 
fertile flowers. The shrub has the habit of Hydrdngea, but 
differs in the ovarium being distinct from the calyx, in the style 
being short and solitary, not 2-3, and in the fruit being 5- 
celled. 
1 B. arcu'ra (Gaud. l. c.) h.G. Native of the Sandwich 
Islands, at the altitude of from 1200 to 1500 feet above the level 
of the sea. A middle-sized tree. 
Sharp-serrated-leaved Broussaisia. Tree. 
Cult. See Cianitis above for culture and propagation. 
Order CXXIII UMBELLI’FERZ (from umbella, an 
umbel, and fero, to bear; this order contains only umbelliferous 
plants, such as the parsnip, celery, parsley, hemlock, carrot, 
coriander, &c.). Juss. gen. 218. D. C. fl. fr. 4. p. 279. prop. 
med. ed. 2. p. 159. Spreng. umb. prod. 1813. and Roem. et 
Schultes, syst. 6. (1820.) p. 29. Hoffm. gen. umb. ed. Ist. 
1814, ed. 24.1816. Vela and Lag. am. nat. esp. 2. 1821. p. 
61. Lag. ibid. p. 87. and obs. aparas. 1826. (in ocios.) Kock, 
umb. disp. in nov. act. bonn. 1824, vol. 12. p. 1. and p. 55.- 
156. and the same in litt. 1828. D. C. coll. diss. mem. 5. with 
XIX. Broussaisia. UMBELLIFERE. 235 
19 plates. D. C. prod. 4. p.55.—Umbellate, Tourn. inst. 
304, Lin. prel. ed gis. p. 508. Adans. fam. pl. 2. p. 89. ex- 
clusive of some genera. Cusson, mem. soc. med. par. 1782.— 
Sciadophytum, Nect. elem. 1. p. 162. 
Calyx with the tube adhering to the ovarium (f. 55. F. h. f. 
55. C. e.); limb 5-toothed (f. 55. F. c.), or entire (f. 55. G. f.): 
lobes or teeth deciduous or permanent. Petals 5 (f. 57.¢. f. 
59. g.), inserted in the top of the tube of the calyx, and altern- 
ating with its lobes, either entire (f. 57. c.), emarginate (f. 61. 
b.), or 2-lobed, sometimes plain at the apex, but usually drawn 
out into a replicate or involute point (f. 61. f. f. 63. e. f, 55. C. i.), 
somewhat imbricate in estivation, rarely valvate; the outer 
flowers of the umbel or ray of the umbel sometimes larger than 
the rest, the rest equal among themselves, rarely abortive. 
Stamens 5 (f. 55. C. b. &c.), alternating with the petals, and 
inserted along with them, and therefore opposite the calycine 
teeth or lobes, always distinct, replicate in wstivation (f. 59. g. 
&c.); anthers ovate, 2-celled, somewhat didymous, opening by 
a double longitudinal chink. Ovarium inferior, 2-celled (f. 55. 
E.c. f. 55. D.d. &c.), (very rarely, and probably from abor- 
tion, l-celled), adnate to the calyx; styles 2, distinct (f. 55. 
F. i. f. 55. G. i. f. 59. e. &c.), when young erect, but at length 
thickened at the base into stylopodium (f. 64. a.), which covers the 
whole disk, forming a sort of crown to the fruit, diverging more 
or less, usually permanent, the outer one directed to the outside 
of the umbel, and the inner one tending to the centre. 
Fruit (called Diachæna, Polache‘na, and Cremocarp by many 
botanists) consisting of 2 carpella (called mericarps because 
(f. 55. D. d. f. 56. C. h. &c.) they adhere to the calyx 
the half of their Jength, and therefore cannot be carpella or 
achenia in the strict sense of those terms), separable from a 
common axis (called a carpophore), to which (f. 56. G. a. 
f. 56. C. a. b. &c.) they adhere by their face (called the com- 
missure) ; the fruit or cremocarp traversed by 10 elevated pri- 
mary ridges, of which the 5 that represent the middle of the 
sepals are called carinal, because they are drawn out into caly- 
cine teeth at the apex: the other 5, alternating with the first- 
named ones are called sutural, because they indicate the sutures 
where the divisions of the calyx are joined, and therefore tend 
to the recesses between the calycine teeth; besides these there 
are others which are apparent in some called secondary, because 
they alternate with the 10 primary nerves, and therefore indicate 
the sides of the divisions of the calyx; all the sutural, carinal, 
and secondary ribs are either filiform, winged, or crested ; 
these ridges or nerves are separated by channels or furrows 
called vallecule, below which, but usually in the channels, 
are placed in the substance of the pericarp, certain linear recep- 
tacles of coloured oily matter, called vittæ, which are directed 
from the apex to the base: they are solitary, twin, or numerous, 
rarely wanting, and sometimes they are inclosed in a proper 
membrane, which is probably a true pericarp. Seeds solitary in 
each carpel, hanging from the top of the axis or carpophore, 
inclosed in a proper membrane, the spermaderm, which is 
but rarely separable from the pericarp. Albumen large, 
fleshy, or rather horny, more or less convex on the out- 
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